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A blog about life and travel in Great Britain

Browsing Posts published in April, 2010

Wednesday was a delightfully sunny day and we had planned our next trip to London today so it was off to the station and on to the train again. We changed, as we did last time, at Stratford on to the Docklands Light Railway headed for Tower Gateway. We were luckier this time and managed [...]

A Capital Trip – Tower Hill

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Back again on the DLR our train was headed for Bank but we wanted Tower Gateway so we had to change at Shadwell. This meant that we got off the train on to the platform to wait for a train to Tower Gateway which happened to be the next one along and we must have [...]

A Capital Trip – Greenwich

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Back on the DLR we travelled to Island Gardens Station which is just a short way further on from Heron Quays. We were going across the River Thames to Greenwich but not on a bridge or on a boat but on foot in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. So that's just 112 steps down to the [...]

A Capital Trip – Docklands

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Many years ago I used to commute to London on the train to get to work and when the train passed through Stratford, where the Olympic Stadium is now being built, I saw the start of the work on what was to be the Docklands Light Railway. This was to run from Stratford, where it [...]